Research Grants and Awards

Education

1952-1959 Grammar School, Wleń, Poland

1959-1963 Lyceum of General Education, Lwó wek Ś l. Poland

1963 - 1966 Wrocł aw University, Wrocł aw, Poland. Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry; Direction of study: Physics.

1966 Competitive Overseas Scholarship of Polish Ministry of Higher Education for specialization in Molecular Biophysics.

1966 - 1970 State St. Petersburg University, Faculty of Physics, St. Petersburg, Russia. Special subject: Molecular Biophysics (Diploma work carried out at the Institute of High-Molecular Weight- Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

1970 Final Examination: St. Petersburg University, Russia.

Title of thesis: “ Separation of MORD curves for single bands.” (Evaluated as equivalent to PhD by Aarhus University in 1972)

1998 Final defence of Doctoral degree in Biological Sciences (D.Sc.) in front of the Attesting Commission for Higher Academic Degrees of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Title of Dissertation: “Regulation of Actin-Myosin Interaction in Smooth Muscle: Role of Myosin Phosphorylation and Tropomyosin as well as Modulatory Pathways of Myosin Kinase and Phosphatase.”

Positions

1970 – 1971 Assistant professor, Biophysics Institute, Aarhus University, Denmark.

1971 – 1972 Aarhus University, Post-doctoral Fellow, Biophysics Institute, Aarhus University, Denmark

1973 – 1974 Aarhus University, Post-doctoral Fellow working at Department of Anatomy Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

1974 – 1976 Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America, Inc. Post-doctoral Fellow at Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark

1976 – 1977 Visiting Associate, Section on Molecular Cardiology, Cardiology Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

1978 – 2003 Senior Investigator, Institute of Molecular Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Salzburg, Austria. After closing of the Institute transferred to the Institute for Biomedical Aging Research in Innsbruck.

[1997 – 2000] Forced absence from the Institute of Molecular Biology due to unjustified dismissal, annulled by three court instances including the Austrian Supreme Court.

2001/2002 Visiting Scientist at Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, USA; (two visits four months each).

2004-2010 Senior Scientist, Institute for Biomedical Aging Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria

2010- 2011 Six-month guest professor, Institute of Physiology and Biophysics; Aarhus

University, Aarhus, Denmark

Research Grants and Awards

Muscular Dystrophy Association of America 1974 - 76 US $ 27, 500

Volkswagen Foundation 1974 - 77 DM 45, 000*

Muscular Dystrophy Association of America 1976 - 80 US $ 70, 000*

Volkswagen Foundation 1978 - 80 DM 90, 000*

Muscular Dystrophy Association of America 1983 - 86 US $ 73, 500

Austrian Research Council 1983 - 85 AS 840, 000

Austrian Research Council 1991 - 93 AS 1, 410, 000

Austrian Science Foundation; Lise Meitner

Post-doctoral fellowship for Dr. E.B. Babiychuk 1993 - 94 AS 420, 000*

East-West Program of Austria 1992 - 95 AS 870, 000

Seegen Foundation 1995 AS 80, 000

Austrian Research Council 1997 -99 € 120, 000§

Austrian Research Council 2002 -03 € 38, 000

Support of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2007 € 41, 000

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(*) Joint applications; (§) Grant could not be used as result of the forced absence (see above).